Peru
Pilgrims of Christ in Peru – Part Three (9:29)
Documentary about the Columban Fathers mission work in Peru. This documentary has three parts. In this third part recounts the events from the Columban General Assembly of 1982 to dispatch the first group of lay missionaries in Peru to work in the Philippines in 2007.
Categories: Peru Updates, Video
St. Bernadette’s Children’s Center
St. Bernadette´s Children’s Center is a non-profit making organization, situated on a barren, poverty stricken hillside in the district of San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru. Our main objective is to provide a safe and caring environment for the children …
Categories: Gifts to Give, Peru Projects, Peru Updates
St. Bernadette’s Children’s Home
Although the Children’s Center can be seen from a long way off as it is perched precariously on top of a hillside, it is the sound of children playing that first gives an inkling as to the purpose of the …
Categories: Gifts to Give, Peru Projects, Peru Updates
Going Home: A priest visits orphanage he once called home
It was the week before Holy Week when I received a phone call from Rosario Vargas, a volunteer worker at Puericultorio Pérez Aranibar, an orphanage for poor children in Peru. She was calling to inquire if I were free to …
Categories: Peru Updates
A Parish Football Team: Reaching out in a creative way
While the U.S. calls the game soccer, 180 million Brazilians and the rest of the world call it football. As a Columban missionary priest in Brazil, I know first-hand how much Brazilians love football.
Categories: Peru Updates
Accompanying Newcomers
Lima, Peru, is a city which has grown rapidly over the last 50 years from around one million inhabitants to nearly nine million. Thousands of new families are still coming in from the country or moving out from overcrowded suburbs closer to the city. There has been no overall city planning, with the result that the newcomers quickly buy or simply squat on empty lands, no matter how barren, sandy, rocky or sloping the terrain may be.
Categories: Peru Updates
A thriving community of faith (Peru)
The chapel Fr. Don and the people are dreaming of would be made of adobe bricks, and the builders would utilize sand and gravel from the river during the building process.
Categories: Columban Projects, Evangelism, Peru Projects, Peru Updates, Worship / Spirituality
A rooftop aviary in Peru
If the engineering theme wasn’t interesting enough, we found something in their house that makes this family even more interesting.
Categories: Peru Updates
Two Stories of Columban Lay Mission
In late 2008, Dan and Meri Diamond quit their jobs, sold their home and became lay missionaries with the Columban Fathers. History At Present Special Message They completed their formation program in California and were officially missioned in June 2009. …
Categories: Chile Updates, Missionaries, Peru Updates
